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New 2Miners Homepage Design
The 2miners.com homepage has been completely redesigned. The new layout is faster, cleaner, and built around what miners actually look for on the front page — supported coins, pool stats, and quick access to mining settings. Take a look and let us know what you think.
Quai Network (QUAI) — New Mining Pools
2Miners launched mining pools for Quai Network on two algorithms: SHA-256 for ASIC miners and KawPow for GPU rigs. Both pool and solo are available across Europe, USA, and Asia. Full setup guide is in our Quai mining announcement.
- SHA-256 pool: 1% fee, 50 QUAI minimum payout, payouts every 2 hours
- SHA-256 solo: 1.5% fee, same payout terms
- KawPow pool: 1% fee, 50 QUAI minimum payout, payouts every 2 hours
- KawPow solo: 1.5% fee, same payout terms
Pool dashboards: QUAI SHA-256 and QUAI KawPow. Estimate profitability for your hardware on 2CryptoCalc.
Zcash (ZEC) Node Update: Version 6.12.1
We updated our Zcash node to zcashd v6.12.1, released on April 17. This is a security release fixing several vulnerabilities that could have caused nodes to crash, diverge from consensus with Zebra, or disable the defence-in-depth provided by pool turnstile checks.
The issues were reported privately by white-hat researcher Alex “Scalar” Sol and handled through coordinated disclosure by Shielded Labs, Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), and Zcash Foundation engineers, in coordination with mining pools.
Vulnerabilities addressed:
- An Orchard transaction with an rk encoding the identity point on the Pallas curve could cause zcashd to panic during proof verification. Fixed by rejecting identity rk before verification.
- The epk (ephemeral public key) in each Orchard action must encode a non-identity point. Zebra enforced this; zcashd did not — creating a potential consensus split. Now rejected.
- A duplicate block header could silently reset pool balance tracking fields, disabling ZIP 209 turnstile enforcement. Pool value initialization now happens after the duplicate-data check.
- The same bug could cause corrupted per-block pool deltas to be persisted to disk. The release adds a chain supply checkpoint at NU6.1 activation covering all value pools and recomputes shielded pool deltas from block data on startup.
Related changes also harden pool balance accumulation against signed integer overflow and improve exception safety around value computation. Mining on the ZEC pool and ZEC SOLO continues uninterrupted.
Kaspa (KAS) Block Reward Reduction
As defined by the Kaspa Tokenomics, the Crescendo Hard Fork, and the official emission schedule, Kaspa underwent another scheduled block reward reduction in April.
- Previous Reward: 3.086 KAS
- New Reward: 2.914 KAS
Please pay attention! Kaspa mining profitability has changed. We have already updated 2CryptoCalc to reflect the new reward values. Mining is available on the KAS pool and KAS SOLO.
Ergo (ERG) Block Reward Reduction
In line with the Ergo emission schedule defined by EIP-27, the network underwent a scheduled block reward reduction in April. Unlike Kaspa’s gradual monthly reductions, Ergo’s cuts happen in larger steps, and this one halved the reward.
- Previous Reward: 6 ERG
- New Reward: 3 ERG
Ergo mining profitability has dropped accordingly. Updated values are already reflected on 2CryptoCalc.
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